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English

Etymology

Derived from the verb to hallucinate with suffix -naut (voyager, traveller).

Noun

hallucinaut (plural hallucinauts)

1. A person who is hallucinating.
   • 1849. Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Page 548 [1]:

     Ravaillac, who assassinated Henri IV., imagined that he smelt fire and brimstone exhaling from his feet; he beheld figures dancing before him, ...and one day he fancied that he saw a death's head upon a statue, all which with many other hallucinations induced him to believe that his victim had been sentenced to be damned, and that it was necessary that he should perish by his hand. The details of the cruel execution of this hallucinaut need not here be recapitulated.

English

Etymology

From Latin hallucinatus, alternate form of al?cin?tus, from al?cin?ri (to dream).

Verb

hallucinate (third-person singular simple present hallucinates, present participle hallucinating, simple past and past participle hallucinated)

1. (transitive and intransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.

Synonyms

• (seem to perceive what is not present): imagine, see things

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